David Beckham has hired a housekeeper to help out his sick father after he suffered from a heart attack last week.

The footballer rushed back to the UK from Los Angeles to see Ted Beckham in hospital after he complained of chest pains and had a heart attack in the ambulance.

Beckham and his wife Victoria have now returned to their new home in LA, but he has paid a cleaner and housekeeper to help Ted while he recovers in his Chingford home.

He also ordered the housekeeper to buy his dad his favourite flowers and go shopping for his preferred helathy foods.

A source said: "David was struck by how homely Ted keeps the Chingford place and wanted him to come out of hospital to a clean and bright home. He's sorry he can't be there himself to help his dad have the easiest recovery possible but he has commitments in LA."